Riccardo Crespi Gallery presents Mad's Rooms, an exhibition by the Italian artist Maddalena Sisto.

Maddalena, or Mad Sisto, is a journalist, architect, traveller, illustrator and passionate observer of her times. Her drawings tell about thirty years of fashion, design, customs and, more particularly, about a feminine world that was changing although remaining the same.

On show a series of works on paper, made with different techniques (watercolour, pencil, paintbrush) all sharing their author's acute and ironical vision.

The inquiry into the feminine, the representation of universal moods and of nowadays vices and virtues are pictured into thematic rooms laid in the context of the gallery's areas with Mad's typical levity and humour.

Maddalena Sisto (Alessandria, 1951- Milano, 2000) Selected Exhibitions: 2010 Natura e Destino, Riccardo Crespi gallery, Milan; Volevo le calze nuove, Riccardo Crespi gallery, Milan, a cura di Francesca Pasini 2009 (Self)Portrait of a Lady, Riccardo Crespi gallery, Milan 2008 Mad’s Land-Italian fashion. Design and lifestyle in Maddalena Sisto’s drawings, Triennale di Milano - Tokyo, Japan; Maddalena Sisto, mobili acrobatici. Spazio Colla, Alessandria 2004 Il Mondo di Mad, Triennale, Milan 2002 Il mondo di Mad-Maddalena Sisto torna ad Alessandria, Galleria di Palazzo Guasco, Alessandria 2001 Maddalena Sisto-70 signorine di fine millennio-Addòwaii, Villa Pignatelli, Naples 2000 Il Bloc Notes di Mad. Mode colte al volo da Maddalena Sisto, Complesso di San Micheletto, Lucca 1999 Capricci Botanici, Galleria Nuages, Milan 1998 Maddalenas italianische Kunst, Galleria Grosse Bleichen, Hamburg 1995 Le signore a pezzi, Galleria Slobs, Milan 1987 Anomalie, Palazzo Cuttica, Alessandria 1986 Un tè alla moda, Galleria Lu Austoni, Milan 1985 120 Sorprendenti Signorine, Palazzo del Senato, Milan 1984139 Signorine, Studio Grazia Fava, Milan

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Moday - Saturday
From 11.00am to 1.00pm and from 3.00pm to 7.30pm

Related images

  1. Maddalena Sisto, 60 idee per dimagrire senza fatica, 1994, acquarello su carta, Courtesy Galleria Riccardo Crespi
  2. Maddalena Sisto, Gli uomini preferiscono le..., 1996, acquarello su carta, 28 x 19 cm, , Courtesy Galleria Riccardo Crespi
  3. Maddalena Sisto, Senza Titolo, tempera su carta, Courtesy Galleria Riccardo Crespi
  4. Maddalena Sisto, Fior di Sentiero, acquarello su carta, 14,5 x 10 cm, Courtesy Galleria Riccardo Crespi
  5. Maddalena Sisto, Untitled, tempera su carta, Courtesy Galleria Riccardo Crespi
  6. Maddalena Sisto, Senza Titolo, acquarello su carta, Courtesy Galleria Riccardo Crespi